Everything We’re Lusting After at This Year’s Finders Keepers Markets
- Words by Peppermint
The Finders Keepers markets are swinging their doors back open in STYLE in 2022! The Brisbane/Meanjin Autumn Winter Market is set to take place across three glorious days, kicking off on Friday 20 May. The Exhibition Building of the scenic Brisbane Showgrounds will be full of good vibes, delicious food and a gloriously reopened bar alongside the main attraction – rows and rows of beautiful stalls featuring the best local makers, designers and artists.
Of course, we’re beyond excited to join the fun as the media sponsor for Finders Keepers again this year! You’ll find us at the Brisbane markets with all the usual goodness – selfie walls, subscription specials, sewing patterns and good laughs. We may even have an extra surprise or two for market attendees… Hush, hush!
Tickets are on sale NOW! Grab yours at the venue or get even more organised and head here to pre-purchase your ticket – you’ll go in the draw to win a subscription to Peppermint.
images THE FINDERS KEEPERS BRISBANE SS21. PHOTOS BY GRACE SMITH.
Have you missed the marvellous magic of market shopping? The sheer delight of perambulating through the promenades, feasting your eyes and fossicking out treasures – there’s nothing we love better! In fact, we’re so keen, we’ve already started making our shopping lists. And, we’re so nice, that we want to share them with you! After all, what makes a shopping trip even more delightful? Sharing it with a friend, of course! Enjoy our picks for lovely fashion, jewellery, homewares and art, or head to the Brisbane lineup and curate your own dream list!
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Doops Designs
Dopamine dressing at its finest: bright and playful linen and cotton dresses, jumpsuits, tees and more in sizes 6-22.
Frske
For that subtle statement piece: classic colours, stripes and gingham in minimalist silhouettes, designed and made in Melbourne in natural fibres.
Ikuntji Artists
Always was, always will be: wearable First Nations art from the Northern Territory, inspired by the artists’ personal stories of Ngurra (Country) and Tjukurrpa (Dreaming).
Alice’s Earth
Sweet silver pieces to delight the soul: stylised shapes and squiggles form delicate and dreamy adornments for ears, necks, wrists and fingies.
Seda Collective
Hear the voice and echo of another culture: beautiful, beaded wearable works of art from Indigenous Colombian artisans.
Eleura Markings
Bling for bush-loving babes: sustainable, small-batch jewellery, hand-crafted from 100% recycled sterling silver, inspired by the beauty of the bush and the landscape of the Atherton Tablelands.
HoneyBee Wrap
Keep your food fresh and bee-licious: long-lasting, high-quality plastic alternatives made from organic, natural and Australian ingredients.
Hello Lola
Ceramics to make you smile: Hello Lola’s one-of-a-kind, hand-finished homewares are painted in small batches in the husband and wife duo’s Brisbane studio.
Pleasant State
Good clean fun: revolutionary, non-toxic, plastic-free, multi-purpose cleaning products that look good, smell good and do good!
Ingrid Bartkowiak
Birds of a feather: whimsical and detailed illustrations of native flora and fauna, Australian birds and creatures nestled in colourful abstracted environments.
Sarah Capon
Take a snip-shot: talented artist Sarah makes intricate portraits of people and pets using layers of cut coloured paper!
Debra Hood
Queen of the Queenslander: cheerfully colourful renderings of the state’s iconic architectural styling bedeck tea towels, puzzles, cards, jewellery aprons and t-shirts.
top image THE FINDERS KEEPERS BRISBANE SS21 BY GRACE SMITH.
The Finders Keepers is Australia’s largest curated marketplace of makers, designers and entrepreneurs. Online, and via their major market events, the Finders Keepers is where communities come together to shop, explore and discover the very best from designers, makers and entrepreneurs in our country.
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On the 14th of April 2013 the Rana Plaza garment factory in Bangladesh collapsed, tragically killing 1134 workers and injuring over 2,500 more.
Every year we commemorate this devastating and avoidable loss of life and advocate for better working conditions for all during Fashion Revolution Week, which runs from 22nd-28th April in 2026.
This year there are different themes for each day of the week, with the annual Mend In Public day falling right in the middle, on Saturday 25th April.
This is your cue to gather your community, settle in and commit some time, attention and creativity to mending your clothes in the pursuit of extending their life in your wardrobe. Be it patching, embroidery, sewing or stitching, there are many ways to resolve structural and aesthetic issues in your garments that will see you donning them for years to come!
If it’s a bit tricky to get mending on the day itself (it will be ANZAC Day here in Australia) then fear not. Any time is the right time for mending so if you need to take needle in hand on another day that will do just fine!
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This very sweet subscription offer comes with some glorious goodies, thanks to our friends at @TheOriginalCocoaTradersCo!
Our lovely community manager Em, runs us through the offer.
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Generous, messy, creative, spiky, warm, enigmatic… our best friends come in many flavours. But they all have one thing in common: they make the world a far better, more interesting place to be.
Inspired by Sam and Sadie’s complicated ‘forever’ bond in Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by @GabrielleZevin (a firm Peppermint fave ‘friendy’ read), we’ve rounded up some iconic fictional duos from books, movies and TV - the ride-or-dies, bosom buddies, chosen family, the ‘you’re-my-person’ people.
They all remind us that the non-romantic kind of love is always worth the effort (and it’s often the kind that lasts!). Think Anne Shirley and Diana Barry, Calvin and Hobbes, Snoopy and Woodstock, Eloise and Penelope… Head to the link in bio to read the full story and meet them all!
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Because as Sadie tells Sam: true collaborators in life are rare. And very much worth celebrating.
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Mother`s Day Chocolate Treats Subscription Special! 🌟
It`s almost time to celebrate that special person in your life who has motherly energy – mum, aunty, single parent, queer parent, grandparent, caregiver... or maybe just someone who happens to love getting chocolate treats (and hey, maybe that someone is YOU!).
This very sweet subscription offer comes with some glorious goodies, thanks to our friends at @TheOriginalCocoaTradersCo!
SUBSCRIBE FOR $79 AND RECEIVE:
🌟 1 x 12-month Peppermint Subscription
PLUS!
🌟 Vegan, gluten-free, 43% cocoa, Certified-Organic Taming The Jackalope Drinking Chocolate from @TheOriginalCocoaTradersCo
🌟 Vegan, gluten-free, 70% cocoa, Certified-Organic Ship To Wreck Chocolate Flakes from @TheOriginalCocoaTradersCo
🌟 Issue 64 (includes a free code for the #PeppermintDaisyDress digital sewing pattern!)
🌟 A5 art card of our exclusive ‘Together We Rise’ Issue 60 cover design by @LukeJohnMatthewArnold
🌟 All wrapped in fabric from @DoopsDesigns
Price includes postage! This special offer is available to Australian addresses only. Don`t miss out – there`s limited numbers!
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#PeppermintMagazine #MothersDay
